For the second year in a row, J-Pop is taking the festivities out of Japantown for a day’s worth of events Saturday at Union Square. You’ll see traditional art performances by Cal Raijin Taiko and Awakko-ren’s Awa-dance from noon to 5 p.m., with a free concert kicking off at 6:30. Performers include beat-boxer Daichi, Tokyo Girls’ Style, the U.S. debut of pop singer Tomomi Itano, pictured, and an appearance by pop/anime singer, May’n, who performs Sunday night at Slim’s.

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The Japan Film Festival of San Francisco, the only fully dedicated annual Japanese film celebration in the Bay Area, kicks off Saturday and runs through July 27. The festival includes J-Pop Splash! 2014, a free event showcasing music videos by a number of J-Pop artists. A pair of U.S. premieres this weekend — “Count Five To Dream of You” and “Kotodama: Spiritual Curse” —star members of the teen pop group Tokyo Girls’ Style, pictured, who will perform over the weekend and host an audience Q&A following the film screenings. Saturday also sees the S.F. premiere of “Tokyo Short Shorts: A New Generation of 5 Short Films,” which include parallel stories of love unfolding around the world's tallest tower and a comedy of a careless death god that pays a visit in the middle of surgery.

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There’ll be no shortage of live music at this weekend’s festival, with female-fronted rockers Pinky Doodle Poodle among the acts performing at the Pagoda Main Stage in Japantown. (The band will do a meet-and-greet with fans and attendees immediately following their Sunday afternoon set.) The other musicians you’ll be able to catch over the two days include beat-boxer Daichi, pictured, singer/model Una and Tokyo Girls’ Style. Check the website for a full schedule.

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Epitomizing the J-Pop celebration will be the KAWAii-themed fashion shows, contests and performances. The KAWAii Pop-Up Shop, inside New People, will features labels straight from Tokyo. There’ll be a fashion contest Saturday, with judges including model Ayumi Seto, pictured; Seto will also show off her collection “Aymmy in the Batty Girls” on Saturday afternoon and participate in autograph/photo sessions both days.

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SCRAP, the Kyoto-based inventors of the Real Escape Game, are bringing an interactive puzzle-solving game to this year’s festival. Called 1000 Treasure Hunters 2014, the treasure hunt/puzzle-solving game takes places both days of the festival, as players search for clues and puzzles hidden throughout Japantown. (No familiarity with Japanese or the Japantown area are needed to play.) You can go it alone or work as a team. A “debriefing” will take place Sunday marking the end of the game, where a grand prize winner will be chosen via drawing, from amongst all of the players who successfully completed the game. Tickets: $22-$25.

This year marks the return of the Pop Gourmet food festival, which includes sake tasting, ramen, gourmet food trucks and Japanese snacks and beverages. You can sample sake from more than a dozen sake companies and brewers; check out the half a dozen vendors on Ramen Street; enjoy Japanese drinks like Sapporo, Takara and ITO-EN; or sample sweets and snacks from a variety of companies, including Onigilly, Megumi Natto and Azuma Foods. You’ll find the food at two locations: Post and Webster streets and on Post between Buchanan and Laguna streets. It runs 11 a.m.-6 p.m. both days.

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